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LEAD: West German leaders marked the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II today with the cautious blend of penitence and politics that has been a fixture in this period of Nazi-era anniversaries, and with a flare-up of the dispute over German-Polish relations.
LEAD: The economy continued to generate new jobs at a moderate clip in August as the unemployment rate edged down one-tenth of a point to 5.1 percent, the Labor Department reported today.
LEAD: In a bid that would make United Airlines the largest American company owned by its employees, the pilots' union and the management of the airline's parent company proposed yesterday to buy the carrier for $6.75 billion.
LEAD: Mayor Edward I. Koch, who only six weeks ago had to borrow $200,000 to keep his campaign commercials on the air, has moved far ahead of his Democratic rivals in fund raising, according to campaign financial reports filed yesterday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 30, 1989, covering September 2, 1989.
Richard Marx
New Kids on the Block
Prince
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
1989Marcus Morris, American basketball player[†]
Marcus Thomas Morris Sr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks before being selected 14th overall by the Houston Rockets in the 2011 NBA draft.
1989Markieff Morris, American basketball player[†]
Markieff Morris is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks before being drafted 13th overall in the 2011 NBA draft by the Phoenix Suns. Morris won an NBA championship with the Lakers in 2020.
1989Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer[†]
Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva, commonly known as Alexandre Pato or just Pato, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
1989Zedd, Russian-German record producer, DJ, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter[†]
Anton Zaslavski, known professionally as Zedd, is a German record producer and DJ. His stage name, Zedd, was derived from zed, the English pronunciation, barring American English, for the first letter of his surname. Raised in Kaiserslautern, Zedd rose to mainstream success with his 2012 single "Clarity", which peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and won Best Dance Recording at the 56th Grammy Awards. It served as the third single for his debut studio album of the same name (2012), of which its deluxe edition spawned the US top 20 single "Stay the Night".
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]